Brief Life History of Dennis F.
When Dennis F. Allen was born in July 1894, in Union Township, Monroe, Iowa, United States, his father, Isaac Samuel Allen, was 23 and his mother, Jessie Luella Monteith, was 17. He lived in Haxtun, Phillips, Colorado, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1973, at the age of 79.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Lenna F Allen in household of Samuel I Allen, "United States Census, 1900"
- Lenie F Allen in household of Samuel Allen, "United States Census, 1910"
- Dennis F Allen in household of Isaac S Allen, "United States Census, 1920"
Parents and Siblings
1871–1953 Male
1876–1973 Female
Siblings (3)
1894–1973 Male
1894–1973 Male
1896– Female
World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 2
1901 · City Hall Built
Age 7
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 22
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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